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Migrations

Migrants spearhead an unprecedented political-cultural battle: to open new routes to the world ¤ François Soulard ¤ 15 September 2016“"The river that carries everything away is called violent, but no one calls violent the bed that oppresses it". - Bertold Brecht
“It is not the earth that moves this time, it is we, migrants. The migrants, all those people going through the many forms of human mobility, we are a substantial part of the new world reality and also an emblematic expression of its contradictions and challenges”. Latin American letter from migrants
Human migrations are surely the most compulsive transnational (...) read more

Rebuilding the Environmental Balance

Transforming Capitalism: the Triple Crisis ¤ Peadar Kirby ¤ 18 December 2014This article identifies a triple crisis of capitalism based on the three fictitious commodities as identified by Karl Polanyi: labour, money and land. This framework is used to integrate the environmental crisis into the wider crisis of capitalism. It argues that international actions required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are going to present major challenges for capitalism with implications for the current dominance of market power and the (...) read more

Call to Multiply the Village of Alternatives ¤ Alternatiba ¤ 25 February 2014As Stéphane Hessel said, one of the greatest challenges of our time was “climate change and environmental degradation due to the actions of man throughout the last three centuries. The disruption of the climate is worsening faster than ever, and threatening the poorest populations of the planet and conditions for civilized life on Earth.”
All the warning signs are here. Climate disruptions are multiplying, affecting the poorest populations of the global South, but also in the global North: (...) read more

Universal, Plural and Quality Education, and Citizen Education

Policy Paper on Education: Building the Future through Quality Education ¤ Education International ¤ 16 February 2014Education International (EI) has decided, after eighteen years of policy making through its Congresses and Conferences at the international and regional levels, to develop a comprehensive policy on education. This policy will encapsulate the very essence of what has made EI what it is today and reflect the goals which should underpin an education that is consistent with EI’s traditions.
This policy challenges explicitly the narrow, instrumentalist view of education as solely teaching (...) read more

Document Database

Post-2015: Global Action for an Inclusive and Sustainable Future ¤ European Report on Development (ERD) ¤ 5 June 2013Based on an assessment of the MDG experience and on an analysis of the changing international context and likely trends for the next 20-30 years, the ERD 2013 attempts to identify key potential drivers of a global partnership for development post-2015. Three such drivers are highlighted:
Money: Development Finance. A fundamental question for an ambitious post-2015 agenda is how to both raise additional development finance and make it more effective. The Report points to the importance of (...) read more

Youth and World Governance ¤ John Anugraha ¤ 2 November 2009Albert Einstein was only 25 years old when he wrote his famous theory of relativity. Gandhi was about 25 years old when he helped to found the Natal Indian Congress, which molded the Indian community of South Africa into a homogeneous political force before he moved on to fight for the freedom of India. Che Guevara was about 28 years old when he joined Fidel Castro’s revolutionary movement for the freedom of Cuba. Nelson Mandela was about 30 years old when as a leader he was spearheading the (...) read more

Nature of Work and Globalization of Social Rights

A Bit Rich: Calculating the Real Value to Society of Different Professions ¤ New Economics Foundation ¤ 14 January 2013Pay matters. How much you earn can determine your lifestyle, where you can afford to live, and your aspirations and status. But to what extent does what we get paid confer ‘worth’? Beyond a narrow notion of productivity, what impact does our work have on the rest of society, and do the financial rewards we receive correspond to this? Do those that get more contribute more to society? With controversial bonuses being paid out in Christmas in bailed-out banks, the authors believe that it is (...) read more

Extreme Poverty and World Governance ¤ Hugues de Courtivron,
Thierry Viard,
Xavier Godinot ¤ 2 May 2011The proposals outlined in this Paper have twin aims. On the one hand, to place the eradication of extreme poverty at the heart of the political goals pursued by a renewed world governance. On the other hand, to recognize the participation of the poorest members of humanity in elaborating new principles or shaping future world governance as an essential condition in the success of the enterprise.
The Paper is based primarily on Xavier Godinot’s observations and proposals in his book (...) read more

Decent Work as a Goal for the Global Economy ¤ Gerry Rodgers ¤ September 2007The International Labour Organization (ILO) has drawn up a new concept: decent work for all. Decent work has four dimensions: the nature of the work and employment in question; the ability to exercise employment rights; safety; and the capacity for employer representation and dialogue.
The concept of “work” aims to reach beyond that of a mere paid job position, to cover all occupational diversity from freelance work to the domestic work carried out by a housewife without receiving payment (...) read more

Legal Principles of a New World Governance

Universal Declaration of Emerging Human Rights ¤ 3 October 2012The Universal Declaration of Emerging Human Rights (UDEHR) is a programmatic instrument of international civil society aimed at state actors and other institutional forums for the crystallization of human rights in the new millennium. The Declaration’s point of departure is the idea that civil society plays a fundamental role in facing the social, political, and technological challenges that contemporary global society presents. For this reason it is provided with the UDEHR, an additional (...) read more

The Emergence of Global Administrative Law ¤ Benedict Kingsbury,
Nico Krisch,
Richard B. Stewart ¤ 20 October 2010Emerging patterns of global governance are being shaped by a little-noticed but important and growing body of global administrative law. In this article we begin the task of identifying some patterns of commonality and connection sufficiently deep and farreaching as to constitute an embryonic field of global administrative law. We point to some factors encouraging the development of common approaches, and to mechanisms of learning, borrowing, and cross-referencing, that are contributing to (...) read more

Citizens’ Reappropriation of Politics

Global Civil Society: Shifting Powers in a Shifting World ¤ Heidi Moksnes,
Mia Melin ¤ 18 September 2012What is global civil society? And what is the meaning of global civil society? A few years ago, there was a debate on whether a global civil society existed or not. Today, few people doubt the existence of a global political space, and research on “global civil society” has emerged as a sub-field of study in the broader context of globalisation theory and research.
Over the past decades, civil society has been considered increasingly important to socio-economic development and in political (...) read more

Regulating the Public and the Private Economy

Regulating Transnational Companies: 46 Proposals ¤ William Bourdon,
Yann Queinnec ¤ 20 December 2011This Proposal Paper hopes to provide an explanation of the constraints and a series of proposals for a system for the regulation of transnational companies (TNCs). This requires us to first set out the fundamental obstacles that make the question of regulating the activities of TNCs so problematic. The crisis in the financial system that has hit economies worldwide has demonstrated the importance of regulating for-profit private and public transnational actors.
The difficulties states have (...) read more

Economic Governance and Globalization

Seven Leverage Points for the Passage from Economy to Œconomy ¤ Pierre Calame ¤ 13 May 2011The concept of leverage points is very well adapted for a coalition wanting to act in favor of the great transition. We need to identify some concrete issues which we think should have a strong leverage effect as it would imply changes in the whole system.
And looking at what is the systemic change about, it would not be a surprise that these leverage points relate either to concepts or to actors or to the very tools which are used in present economy. Here are seven proposed leverage (...) read more

Agriculture, and Food Security and Sovereingty

Governance of the World Banana Trade ¤ Iain Farquhar ¤ 16 October 2009With liberalisation of the global banana market and more intense price competition, it has become increasingly difficult for small producers to survive, while large intensive operations which can keep costs down by paying particularly poor wages and disregarding environmental controls tend to be favoured. Consequently, if the aim of governance should be to manage the planet sustainably, then current patterns of governance are clearly failing.
This paper will concentrate on those producers, (...) read more